Original Gouache (bodycolor) from portuguese painter and illustrator Carlos Alberto Santos, made for the prodution of the trading cards collection ( collectible cards, cromos in portuguese ) Historia de Lisboa (Lisbon History), first published in 1960 by the Agencia Portuguesa de Revistas.
This collection had 145 cards, and this is the original for card number 15 , about the Arabs in Lisbon; the lavish life, good port location and the corruption ( Lisboa was called Olisipo )
Size : 4.2" x 5.9" ( 10,8 x 14,8 cm )
on thick paper.
Short Carlos Alberto Santos biography ( made by J. Mimoso in his website Tabacaria )
Carlos Alberto Santos was born in Lisbon in 1933. He started his aprenticeship as publicity illustrator in 1947. Soon he was doing artwork for comic books. In 1953 he completed his best remembered early work: a history of Portugal in 203 illustrations. The resulting book had 17 editions in 20 years. As a graphic artist he illustrated many books and magazines and was also commissioned by the Portuguese Post to do the artwork for two series of stamps.
His first individual exhibition of oil paintings of historical subjects was held at the National Society of Fine Arts in 1970. His work is in private and public collections and museums in Europe and the United States.
Exposições/ Exhibitions (1970-1998)
Carlos Alberto Santos expôs os seus trabalhos em 44 exposições individuais e 50 colectivas, incluindo as listadas abaixo.
The artist presented his oils on 94 instances, including the following individual exhibitions:
His work is in collections in Portugal, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Brazil, USA, Canada, and Saudi Arabia.